Warangal: Police yet to crack mystery behind nine bodies found in well

Warangal: Four days after nine bodies were recovered from a well in Warangal, police have not reached to a conclusion whether it was a murder or mass suicide. Multiples teams formed by Warangal police were making hectic efforts to gather evidence in the sensational case, which is proving to be a challenge for the investigators.

Bodies of nine migrants, including six from a family, have been preserved after autopsy at Mahatma Gandhi Hospital (MGH) in Warangal. The hospital authorities said the bodies would be handed over to their families with police permission.

So far, no kin of anyone of the dead hailing from West Bengal, Bihar and Tripura came forward to claim the bodies. The district officials said if nobody comes forward to claim the bodies, they will arrange the last rites.

The forensic teams on Sunday collected more samples as part of the investigation while police were questioning two men from Bihar, who were in close contact with Mohammed Maqsood Alam, who along with five members of his family, and three others were found dead.

The investigators have not yet reached a conclusion about the cause of the death and were waiting for results of some of the tests being done at Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL).

The police also reported to have recovered two mobile phones of Alam's family.

In the absence of any CCTV cameras in the area around the well, the investigators are banking on the call data to get clues. Police were trying to identify the people the victims last spoke to.

The forensic teams also collected food samples from the houses of Alam and three other men found dead to find out if they were poisoned before the bodies were dumped into the well. The tests at FSL are expected to help them reach to conclusion if there was any poison in the liver or viscera. It may take 10 days or two weeks to get the test reports.

Dr Raza Malik, who performed the autopsy, said that they had found scratch marks on some of the bodies but still investigating how they occurred. He said that they are suspecting that seven were alive when they fell into the well while two others were either sleeping or already dead when they were thrown into the well.

It should be noted here that the bodies of six members of a family of West Bengal, two bodies of natives of Bihar and one body of Tripura native were recovered from the well. They were all workers in a gunny bag manufacturing unit.

It is said that there was a birthday party at Alam's house on Wednesday and he had invited the three other men for the same.